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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 6, No. 2 March 17th, 1943

[Introduction]

"The Germans also took a certain number of girl students, at Prague, especially from the Hostel Budec, in the course of the same nocturnal raid. Many girls, dragged on to large open spaces surrounded by tanks, were raped before the eyes of the fettered students, some by several men, one after another. The German soldiers burned the breasts of their victims with cigarettes. Other girls were compelled to drink the contents of spittoons filled with urine and became ill with disgust. The men students were powerless spectators of these frightful scenes. Those who, from fear or disgust, uttered a cry or manifested their horror in any way whatsoever, in face of such ignominy, were immediately subjected to fresh tortures; one was shot, another had his thighs pierced by bayonet thrusts.

"The theologians of the Grand Seminary of Prague and the inmates of Arnost the Archbishop of Pardubice Catholic College were likewise subjected to savage cruelty.